{"id":945,"date":"2011-02-16T01:00:47","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T06:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/info-libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/?p=945"},"modified":"2023-07-07T18:25:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T18:25:43","slug":"1901","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/02\/16\/1901\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 41 – 1901: Are Our Industrial Leaders Efficiently Trained? : A Comparison of Technical Education at Home and Abroad, by the Council of the Association of Technical Institutions"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Published: Bristol, England, 1901<\/p>\n

MIT was founded on the idea that an excellent education, based on a solid foundation in the sciences, was the surest road to technological and industrial innovation. A century ago, England\u2019s Association of Technical Institutions was thinking along the same lines, and recognizing that the overall health and success of the nation was tied to the robustness of its industry.<\/p>\n

This pamphlet published by the Association opens with a stern warning: \u201c … it is a matter of life and death for us to maintain our position as a great industrial nation \u2026 we cannot do this unless our manufacturers and merchants \u2026 are as well trained as those of the nations whose competition we have to meet.\u201d<\/p>\n

The United Kingdom had seemed an all but unmatchable leader in the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century. But other nations \u2014 in particular Germany and the United States \u2014 provided increasingly stiff competition, and the technical education offered in both those countries was on the Council\u2019s mind when this pamphlet was prepared. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the only American school named in the publication, and the MIT model had clearly caught the Council\u2019s attention.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

They write that \u201cAmerican employers appreciate so greatly the value of Technical training that, although three hundred students \u2026 leave the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, each year \u2026 the number of applications for such students is so great that they are all provided with engagements before they complete their courses.\u201d Then as now, the value of an MIT education was appreciated internationally.<\/p>\n

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Published: Bristol, England, 1901 MIT was founded on the idea that an excellent education, based on a solid foundation in the sciences, was the surest road to technological and industrial innovation. A century ago, England\u2019s Association of Technical Institutions was thinking along the same lines, and recognizing that the overall health and success of the nation was tied to the robustness of its industry. This pamphlet published by the Association opens with a stern warning: \u201c … it is a matter of life and death for us to maintain our position as a great industrial nation \u2026 we cannot do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":false,"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4251,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions\/4251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}